JOELOSES HIS‘VOICE’

VOA purge over Biden vid

President Trump’s new chief at the Voice of America and its parent organization made sweeping staff changes this week in response to a pro-Joe Biden video and a review of foreign-worker hiring, The Post has learned.

Michael Pack, who took the helm of the US Agency for Global Media in June, had already fired a group of editorial-content chiefs as he seeks to redirect the global news service formed during the Cold War.

Tabinda Naeem, digital managing director of the VOA’s Urdu language service, was placed on leave — as part of a process that could result in termination — in response to the proBiden video, sources told The Post.

Four contractors involved with the video were informed Wednesday that their deals will be terminated.

Pack separately informed seven senior leaders of the USAGM in Washington via courier service Wednesday that their security clearances were suspended and they are on leave over concerns about the hiring of foreign workers, the Post’s sources said.

USAGM general counsel David Kligerman, chief financial officer Grant Turner and executive director Oanh Tran are among the seven placed on leave and stripped of clearances, the sources said. Naeem, Kligerman, Turner and Tran did not reply to e-mails seeking comment.

A spokesman for the USAGM told The Post: “We took action today to restore integrity . . . at USAGM. We will take additional steps to help return this agency to its glory days.”

The Biden video, released last month, touched off a furor agency.

Pack and others viewed it as validation of their belief the agency had strayed from its mission of sharing US views with the world in a nonpartisan manner.

In the campaign-style VOA Urdu clip, Biden appeals for Muslim votes.

“Make no mistake people, 2020 is our year,” a voiceover says. “Let’s do our part and join the largest Muslim voter mobilization in America.”

Pack also reviewed the hiring of foreign citizens.

Under prior management, the USAGM hired about 1,500 foreign citizens to staff language verticals, according to government data.

Pack and allies claim the hiring was done inappropriately, and that security clearances were issued despite insufficient vetting, including of Chinese citizens. within the